BISBY in CT NY MI Texas
The first Bisby that I can document in my family is Valentine Bisby born in NY 1820, the first time he shows up on media record is a marriage to a Abigail Luce 1846 Michigan(Thorpe and their sons death record). 1850 Census and from there on in Michigan until 1900 Census where he shows up living with his daughter and son in law in Rhode Island.The daughter Martha married a Sears Shepard born in NY and they start in Michigan go to Rhode Island and finally Maine.Their son Elliott Hiram Bisby is my grandfather moved from Michigan to Chicago where he married Susan Arwilda Seslar of Ohio and they moved to Texas where my grandfather Charles Elliott Bisby and father Joseph Brice Bisby were born in the Houston Harriss County area.Their other son Asa Charles married a Cora Hubbard in Michigan, moved to Chicago but they divorced. Asa Charles stayed in Michigan and died there, Cora his wife moved to Texas and died there.I am looking for any inforamtion as to where Valentine came from.He states in on Census that his parents were from Ireland and in all the rest that they were from Connecticut.Family stories say his first name was Ace but it is more likely Asa or Amasah.There is also a family rummor that they had other children.